Defence Committee presents sixth Report

Date : August 27, 2013

Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production has launched its sixth report. During the period being reported upon multifaceted activities were organized by the Committee. These included the holding of two Committee meetings, a requisitioned one on 17 May, 2013 and an in camera consultative meeting on 17 July, 2013, in which not only work plan of the Committee for the next six months (July- December 2013) was approved but the Committee deliberated upon some of the most controversial issues in a consultative manner. The in camera testimony by a Member of the Abottabad Commission was first of kind event through which the Committee was able to demystify some of the complicated issues related to the leakage of Report of the Commission as well as actual status of the Report vis-à-vis the leaked one. The Public Hearing organized by the Committee in collaboration with of Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA), invited experts from LUMS, NUST, Ripha University and Internet Service Providers. The Defence Ministry and other related government departments / agencies were present at the Seminar in which many Members of the Parliament, other than the Senate Defence Committee Members participated. The Report includes not only the verbatim record of the proceedings of the Public Hearing but papers and write ups by an expert and a Member of the Committee.

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